Why do peoples voices always sound different on camcorder?

Answer 1

It's because it IS different. And no, that wasn't a smart-*** answer. Here's what I mean. When you hear sound inside your head, you hear it going out from your mouth and into your ears, but it also vibrates your skull, so you hear the vibrations in your bones as well. Your ears use tiny bones to pick up sound, so naturally it will pick up this sound as well. When someone else or a camera picks up the sound, it only picks up the sound through the air, and it doesn't pick up any bone vibrations. So it sounds different because the sound waves it receives (air only vs. air & bone) ARE different. Also, if you are using a lower quality mic, the voice will be slightly distorted, so that even if you are listening to someone else talk, it will sound slightly different. So the only thing you can really do is to get a higher quality mic. Either that, or somehow you find a way to listen to your voice from someone else's body. Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Well its just because the recording on tape can't make the sound as sharp as real life. And your voice sounds very different because your mouth is right by your ears making the pitch and tone and volume different than it sounds to real people

Answer 3

I have always wondered this. Mine sounds totally different on anything. Like the phone. I think they must put something in there to change the appearance and the sound, because most people do sound different.

Answer 4

It's only our own voice that sounds different to ourselves. It sounds the same to everyone else. I know the first time I heard my own voice I didn't know who was speaking. I think it's because when we talk we are hearing ourselves from inside our own head.